They talk about it on TV, in commercials, in movies, on songs, and you talk about it at school. So why not talk about it on the Cross Over devotionals and find out the truth about sex. Sex is something I grew up thinking was just something we were supposed to do whenever you had a chance. I mean everyone else at school was doing it (so they said) and so that was the thing to do. My closest friends were doing it so it's just a part of what you do. That's what I thought. The music I listened to talked about it, they did it in the movies I watched so it was alright to do it with any girl I thought was cute that gave me the chance. And plus no one ever told me there was anything wrong with it. As long as you had protection it was all good. So before I got to high school I had sex. Then in tenth grade I got drunk and had sex with a girl that I probably would not have slept with had I not had soo many drinks. Do you know what happened? I caught something and it was pretty painful. I could tell you some stories but just to keep things short I want to make a few points. Sex is good, and it's clean, and it's right, and it's perfect. Trust me I am married and I can say that sex is awesome! It's only good, clean, right, and perfect at the right time. Sex was created by God to be performed inside of a marriage covenant. Do you know when the right time to have sex is? That's right. When you get married. I know that society will tell you otherwise. The world will tell you it's okay to do anything as long as it feels good. Just because it feels good does not mean that you should do it whenever you feel like doing it. I feel like punching my boss sometimes and I know it would feel good if I did, but does that mean I should do it? No, of course not. I would get fired and probably thrown in jail. Who knows? I would have hit him and it would have felt good but what are the consequences. I have no job, therefore no money, and now I am spending time in jail. For what? Because I wanted to do something that felt good. Would it be worth it? I don't think so. It's the same with sex. Just because you think it would feel good to do it does not mean you should do it illegally. Do you know what I mean by illegally? It's legal all day long when you are married but it's illegal outside of marriage. Maybe you don't feel loved and you think sex will fix your problem. It will only make matters worse. Maybe you want to fit in and you want your friends to think highly of you because you had sex. Would it be worth it for you to catch an STD just to impress people? Trust me it's not. As I mentioned earlier I got burned once and it was not worth it. I want to end you with this. Sex is right but only at the right time. Ladies, if he is not willing to wait until marriage then he doesn't love you. Fellas, I know how you feel. But trust me if you wait, it will be worth it. It's like playing sports. A running back in football can't just run wherever he wants whenever he wants to. The best running backs are the patient ones because they know how to wait for their blocks. The best hitters in baseball don't just swing at everything because they would strike out all the time. They wait for a good pitch they can hit. A good shooter in basketball doesn't shoot the ball every time he gets the ball. He creates opportunities and when he is open he shoots the ball. Your opportunity is when you get married. Wait. I'm telling you it's worth it. God said, "A man should leave mother and father and cleave unto his WIFE..." Notice he said WIFE. That means they are married. God said sex was okay as long as you are married. If God said it's okay then it's okay but it has to be the right time.
Mick
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Seeing is believing… NOT!
The world uses the term faith loosely and throws it around like any other word and as vain as the phrases, “Oh my god!” or “Jesus!” I personally can’t go without thinking of God when exercising faith or think about faith. Faith is another one of those powerful words with multiple meanings.
As Arlene explained in her devotional, there is “Faith” – the noun – and “faith” – the verb.
Faith when expressed as a noun has religious ties, like the “Christian Faith” for example. It still means belief, but it’s a religious belief. Like a belief in Buddha, or Allah... or like a belief in Christ.
Faith as a verb is “to believe”. It’s the discipline and strength to believe in the impossible. To know the desires of your heart will happen, when and how you want or expect them to. Faith is also a belief in things you cannot see.(Hebrews 11:1) That’s why when the world says “Seeing is believing”, I disagree. Faith is believing! You don’t need to see everything to believe. I’ve used air as an example before. I can’t see air. Don’t know about you, but the world seems to make us believe it’s there. There’s no question about that! And it’s just so hard for them to wrap their minds around Christ rising from the dead, or even believe in his existence. If they didn’t see it, it couldn’t have been true! 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, “Our lives are guided by faith, not by sight.” So believe that! If Christ hasn’t come back to life, your faith is worthless and sin still has you in its power, 1 Corinthians 15:17.
To me, faith is believing strongly with my heart on something, and knowing it will come to pass with the help of Christ. With my trust already in him, the impossible part is for what I believe not to come true.
Faith is power though, and like Spider-man’s grandma said, with great power comes great responsibility. And with that said, you have to know that in order for your faith to work at its peak power, you have to continue doing what is right and what makes your heavenly father proud. Faith by itself is dead if it doesn’t cause you to do any good things, James 2:17.
Doubt, the opposite of faith, can easily come over you when you misuse your faith. Expecting your faith to pull through for you, when you aren’t doing the right things is useless. Things might not work in your favor and the result of that can easily become doubt. We’ve all probably been through this. So why not keep our faith strong, and make sure it continues to work for us and not against us.
Be strong!
- C.j.
As Arlene explained in her devotional, there is “Faith” – the noun – and “faith” – the verb.
Faith when expressed as a noun has religious ties, like the “Christian Faith” for example. It still means belief, but it’s a religious belief. Like a belief in Buddha, or Allah... or like a belief in Christ.
Faith as a verb is “to believe”. It’s the discipline and strength to believe in the impossible. To know the desires of your heart will happen, when and how you want or expect them to. Faith is also a belief in things you cannot see.(Hebrews 11:1) That’s why when the world says “Seeing is believing”, I disagree. Faith is believing! You don’t need to see everything to believe. I’ve used air as an example before. I can’t see air. Don’t know about you, but the world seems to make us believe it’s there. There’s no question about that! And it’s just so hard for them to wrap their minds around Christ rising from the dead, or even believe in his existence. If they didn’t see it, it couldn’t have been true! 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, “Our lives are guided by faith, not by sight.” So believe that! If Christ hasn’t come back to life, your faith is worthless and sin still has you in its power, 1 Corinthians 15:17.
To me, faith is believing strongly with my heart on something, and knowing it will come to pass with the help of Christ. With my trust already in him, the impossible part is for what I believe not to come true.
Faith is power though, and like Spider-man’s grandma said, with great power comes great responsibility. And with that said, you have to know that in order for your faith to work at its peak power, you have to continue doing what is right and what makes your heavenly father proud. Faith by itself is dead if it doesn’t cause you to do any good things, James 2:17.
Doubt, the opposite of faith, can easily come over you when you misuse your faith. Expecting your faith to pull through for you, when you aren’t doing the right things is useless. Things might not work in your favor and the result of that can easily become doubt. We’ve all probably been through this. So why not keep our faith strong, and make sure it continues to work for us and not against us.
Be strong!
- C.j.
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